HAPPY VALLEY -- Police say DNA evidence has linked a man already charged in a carjacking with a previous robbery of a cab driver.

Meanwhile, police are asking for the public's help in finding an accomplice in the cab driver robbery.

Sgt. Adam Phillips, Clackamas County Sheriff's Office spokesman, said James Hardee of Silverton was arrested by deputies March 9 while driving a vehicle he was suspected of carjacking from a Happy Valley resident. A grand jury subsequently charged him with first-degree robbery, second-degree robbery, three counts of vehicle theft, seven counts of identity theft, two counts of first-degree theft and two counts of third-degree theft.

Hardee, 43, is being held in the Clackamas County Jail, with bail set at $505,000.

Phillips said Hardee already had been identified as a suspect in the Sept. 11 robbery of a cab driver in a rural part of the county. The Oregon State Police Crime Laboratory recently completed analysis of DNA evidence linking him to a glass he reportedly drank from at a restaurant before the robbery was committed. Video evidence also links Hardee to the crime, Phillips said.

But while investigators were trying to find Hardee for questioning, "he was committing ID thefts at various Clackamas County businesses," Phillips said.

Happy Valley police are asking for the public's help in identifying an accomplice in the Happy Valley carjacking robbery. The victim was able to provide details a forensic artist to create a sketch of the accomplice.

Phillips urged anyone with information to call the sheriff's confidential tip line at 503-723-4949. Confidential text messages can be sent to CRIMES (274637 on a cell phone keypad), with the keyword "CCSO" as the first word in the message.